In 10 years of existence under National Socialist control Bergen-Belsen was used to house construction workers,
Prisoners of War, exchange prisoners and finally evacuees from Concentration Camps across Europe
About 70,000 of the prisoners were held there died, mainly through neglect of the administration, their graphic images unleashed upon the world when the British Army the camp on 15 April 1945.
Unlike other camps like Auschwitz, Dachau, Buchenwald etc. there is very little remaining of the original structures, most of them either burnt to the ground in May 1945 or destroyed/sold off in the early 1950's.
Prisoners of War, exchange prisoners and finally evacuees from Concentration Camps across Europe
About 70,000 of the prisoners were held there died, mainly through neglect of the administration, their graphic images unleashed upon the world when the British Army the camp on 15 April 1945.
Unlike other camps like Auschwitz, Dachau, Buchenwald etc. there is very little remaining of the original structures, most of them either burnt to the ground in May 1945 or destroyed/sold off in the early 1950's.
work cited
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concentration_camp
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005224
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